Improvement in fluting-mach ines



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IMPROVEMENT IN FLUTINQ-MAICHINES.

Specication forming part of Letters Patent No. 53,633, dated April 3, 1866.

To all 'whom it may concern:

Be it known that we, SUSAN KNOX and WV. D. GoRRIsTER, of No. 122 East Sixteenth street, in the city, county, and State of N ew York, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Flirting-Machines; and we do hereby declare that thefollowing is a full, clear, and exact description thereof, which will enable those skilled in the art to make and use the same, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, forming part of this specication.

The presemt invention relates to machines for making flirting-trimming,77 so called, used by ladies in the trimming of their dresses; and

itconsists in so arranging one of the two fluted rollers betweenwhich the m aterial to beilutedsuch as linen, lace, Ste-is passed that it can be readily raised or removed from the other, in order that the material passing` between them can be removed therefrom 5 and, furthermore, it consists in an arrangement of parts whereby the rollers can be adjusted with regard to each other so as to produce agreater orlesser pressure upon thematerial passing between them, as may be desired.

Heretofore, when desired to remove thematerial being iiuted by the rollers before it has entirely passed between them, it has been done by reversing the motion of the rollers, thus causing the material to travel back, the great objection to which was that as the material repassed between the rollers it necessarily produced irregularity in the uting, which, as is obvious, was exceedingly disadvantageous 5 but by our improvement this objection is entirely obviated, as will be readily apparent from the following detail description thereof, the material being at any time and at any point of its length susceptible of an easy removal from the machine.

In accompanying plate of drawings our improvement is illustrated, Figure l being a plan or top View of the machine, and Fig. 2 a longitudinal vertical section taken in the plane of the line c w, Fig. l.'

au in the drawings represent the bed-plate of the machine, which may be either the top of a table or a separate piece of wood or other suitable material, at one end of which, b, are two upright standards, cc, at a short distance apart, between which one of the uted rollers d is hung, turning at each end in suitable bearings thereof.

fis a standard-frame placed somewhat back of the position of the fluted roller d and secured to the bed-plate a in any proper manner, to which frame is hung in a horizontal plane a frame g, so as to be freely turned thereon. In outer end, h, of this horizontal frame g, and extending across the same, another iluted roller, Z, similar in size and shape to the roller d, is hung so as to turn therein, which roller linterlocks with the corrugations in the other roller and is above the same, the frame being held firmly down, so as to bring its roller in close contact with the roller d by means of metallic spring-plates m m, fastened at one end to the fixed standard-frame f, and both bearing by their other ends, a n, upon the cross bar or rod o of the frame g, between its roller l and its hinged end.

The pressure with which the frame-roller h is made to bear upon the roller d is regulated at pleasure by simply turning the thumbscrews p p, that hold the springs to the frame f, which, through theirhead-plate q, thus increase or decrease the stiffness ofthe springs, as the case maybe, and as is evident without further explanation.

In the upper end of the projecting arm 1^ of the standard-frame j' is hung a lever, s, one end of which is provided with a suitable handle, t, while the other passes under the cross-bar o ofthe horizontal frame Z, so that by pressing down upon the handle end of the lever the frame gis caused to be swung upward, thus lifting the roller Zfrom the roller d, the frame, when the hand is withdrawn from the leverhandle, falling by its own weight, aided by the force of the springs m m.

The material to be iuted is passed in and between the two fluted rollers, as in ordinary flirting-machines, motion being communicated to such rollers through a crank-handle, w, secured to one end of the lower roller, d, which motion can be continued till the whole of the material has been passed through them,unless desired to withdraw the same before being fully fluted, when the upper roller is raised, as before described, thus allowing the material to be readily removed, the advantages of which are evident to all.

The rollers d and Z we intend to arrange in claim as new and desire-to secure by Letters Patent- A iiuting-machine having the upper roller hung in a horizontal spring swingingfraine, substantially in the manner described, for the purpose speci'ed.

The above specification of our invention signed by us this 31st day of July, 1865.

MRS. SUSAN `KNOX. W. D. CORRISTER.

NVitnesses WM.DEAN OVERELL, ALBERT W. BROWN. 

